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UNITE STATES PATlENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. PROVOST, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

WALL-PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,686, dated August 23, 1887.

Application filed April 16, 1887.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. Pnovosr, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Wall-Paper, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to the ornamentation of wall-paper with colors and bronze; and the invention consists in the method of distributing on a wet or dry ground color or bronze, so that the bronze will appear upon the color, and then the paper is embossed;

In carrying my invention into effect the paper is first given its ground-color, and while yet wet the paper is passed through the printing or coloring machine and several colors applied to the ground-color. This color being wet, the color or colors applied to it will run, or bleed, as it is termed, giving the paper a very soft finish. After the color or colors have been applied the bronze is applied by the same machine and in the same operation with another roller, there being a roller for each color and a-roller for the bronze. After the paper becomes dry it is passed through an embossing-machine, which embosses the paper without reference to the figures or colors. In this manner, if the color and bronze be put on in small spots, the paper maybe given a mot tled finish to imitate granite or fabric with a fine figure, and the coloring will have a soft and indistinct character.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The method herein described of ornamenting wall-paper, which consists in applying the ground-color and then printing colors, and also bronze, upon the ground-color while the same is in a wet or moist state, substantially as described.

2. The method herein described of ornamenting wall-paper, which consists in first applying the ground-color, then printing in colors and bronze upon the ground while the same is in a wet or moist state, and then passing the paper through an embossing-machine, substantially as described.

CHARLES H. PROVOST.

Witnesses:

H. A. Wnsr, O. SEDGWIOK. 

